The Education Minister has been asked to consider another round of $50,000 bonuses for tired teachers to quit the public school system. Source: AAP

PUBLIC servants are urging new Education Minister Jennifer Rankine to consider offering another round of $50,000 "burnout bonuses" to entice unmotivated, ageing public school teachers to quit their jobs.

Department workforce management director Michael Papps said the proposal was on the table for the new minister to consider.

"From a department perspective, we are keen for it to go ahead," he said. "It was hugely successful.

"It gave an opportunity for teachers who were seeking to exit the department an incentive and allowed us to recruit an extra 100 teachers who weren't permanent to the department."

An Australian Taxation Office ruling last year granted the Education Department permission to offer early retirement packages this financial year under the Teacher Renewal Program.

Eligible teachers must be permanently employed in an SA government school, have accumulated at least 10 years of permanent teaching service and be younger than 65.

Teachers must also have been identified as being unable to perform assigned teaching tasks at the required skill level or have not updated their skills in the past three years to be eligible.

In the first round, applicants for the vacant positions had to be recent graduates, which allowed the scheme to be self-funding.

Ms Rankine said the department's chief executive had not yet raised the issue.

"I will take his advice on the matter before discussing it with my Cabinet colleagues," she said.

Australia Education Union SA president Correna Haythorpe said that, given the extraordinary number of teachers on contracts, action was welcomed.

"But if the program were to again restrict new places to early-career graduates, there would be a lot of cross people," she said.

"There are hundreds of people in the system who have been denied permanent employment by the department for many years so any new positions must be open to all teachers."

Opposition education spokesman David Pisoni said the Government should be rewarding good teachers, not poorly performed ones.

"The department needs a proper performance management program that deals with poor performance," he said.

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